I'm afraid, as Robin says, it's not good news....
.....the Ka went over the weighbridge at the weekend
The reasons are threefold:
1) I currently have a greater need for more space in the unit and one car had to go in order to make the space. The Ka was the last in, so first out...it was also the 'cheapest and most easily replaceable' of all the cars.
2) My current financial circumstances (not earned ANY money since May 2010) meant the money from weighing the car in is a bit more important right now than having the car.
3) I knew the car had a lot of rust, but after putting it up on the ramp and having a poke around it was very quickly evident that the car was a helluva lot more rusty than it first appeared. Like VERY rusty! There were about four or five of us under the car looking at all the rust spots and before long the overall/universal/general concensus was to get out from under the car ASAP. Very little metal between front and rear wheels. The same behind the rear wheels. And to the fore of the front wheels. Not just a case of new sills and some plates on the boot floor but most of the under structure would need replacing. I suddenly felt very guilty that Matt had driven this car all the way from Leeds to Bristol! I was also worried that it would simply fold in half while towing it up to the scrapyard. It really was that bad. Seriously.
With those three points in mind, I made the decision to scrap the car. Despite EVERYONE there this weekend feeling sad to see the project terminated before it really got going, everyone was in 100% agreement that after seeing the true state of the car, and knowing my current financial/space needs it was the only really sensible thing to do.
I do hope to revisit this project at some point in the future, but until my financial circumstances change, it won't be anytime soon.
Sorry everyone, it was great to see such an enthusiastic response to the project and the start of the work was supposed to kick off this weekend just gone - but I think it is better to have stopped it before we really invested any time in it.
Apologies again and please understand that this wasn't an easy decision to make - there are quite a few people out there who can vouch for the many phonecalls made to discuss if I was making a mistake or not. Ithink am confident I have made the right decision despite still feeling very sad about it.
.....the Ka went over the weighbridge at the weekend
The reasons are threefold:
1) I currently have a greater need for more space in the unit and one car had to go in order to make the space. The Ka was the last in, so first out...it was also the 'cheapest and most easily replaceable' of all the cars.
2) My current financial circumstances (not earned ANY money since May 2010) meant the money from weighing the car in is a bit more important right now than having the car.
3) I knew the car had a lot of rust, but after putting it up on the ramp and having a poke around it was very quickly evident that the car was a helluva lot more rusty than it first appeared. Like VERY rusty! There were about four or five of us under the car looking at all the rust spots and before long the overall/universal/general concensus was to get out from under the car ASAP. Very little metal between front and rear wheels. The same behind the rear wheels. And to the fore of the front wheels. Not just a case of new sills and some plates on the boot floor but most of the under structure would need replacing. I suddenly felt very guilty that Matt had driven this car all the way from Leeds to Bristol! I was also worried that it would simply fold in half while towing it up to the scrapyard. It really was that bad. Seriously.
With those three points in mind, I made the decision to scrap the car. Despite EVERYONE there this weekend feeling sad to see the project terminated before it really got going, everyone was in 100% agreement that after seeing the true state of the car, and knowing my current financial/space needs it was the only really sensible thing to do.
I do hope to revisit this project at some point in the future, but until my financial circumstances change, it won't be anytime soon.
Sorry everyone, it was great to see such an enthusiastic response to the project and the start of the work was supposed to kick off this weekend just gone - but I think it is better to have stopped it before we really invested any time in it.
Apologies again and please understand that this wasn't an easy decision to make - there are quite a few people out there who can vouch for the many phonecalls made to discuss if I was making a mistake or not. I